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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (186607)	9/25/2001 7:34:49 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Respond to of 769670

Uncaring parents are uncaring parents whether they send their kids to public schools, private schools, religious schools, home schools or $30,000 Ivy League prep schools. I would point out that there are a considerable number of school districts in this country that are doing it right. And some are in the inner cities. There are many success stories as well as failure stories; it's just that the latter usually get the ink. Part of the answer is for school districts to learn from their counterparts. Example: My son graduated from an "at risk" public urban high school last May. Four hundred kids were in his 9th grade class, about 190 graduated as 12th-graders. However, of those kids that did graduate, one is now at West Point, one is now at the U.S. Naval Academy (female), and one is now at an Ivy League school after scoring a 1580 on her SAT. Obviously, the school is doing something right, even though the drop-out numbers might suggest otherwise.